• n. 婦女胸衣；婦女胸衣前端的鋼絲
• vt. 準備好
• vi. 沿街賣藝
• n. (Busk)人名；(英)巴斯克；(瑞典)布斯克

來自西班牙語buscar, 尋求，此處指尋求名聲和財富。-sk, 反身后綴，同bask. 最終詞源同PIE *bheue, 存在，生存，居住，見be.

busk (n.)

"strip of wood, whalebone, etc., used in corset-making," 1590s, probably from French busc (16c.), from Italian bosco "splinter," of Germanic origin (see bush (n.)).

busk (v.)

"to prepare, to dress oneself," also "to go, set out," c. 1300, probably from Old Norse buask "to prepare oneself," reflexive of bua "to prepare" (see bound (adj.2)) + contraction of Old Norse reflexive pronoun sik. Most common in northern Middle English and surviving chiefly in Scottish and northern English dialect. Related boun had the same senses in northern and Scottish Middle English. Related: Busked; busking.

The nautical term is attested from 1660s (in a general sense of "to tack, to beat to windward"), apparently from obsolete French busquer "to shift, filch, prowl," which is related to Italian buscare "to filch, prowl," Spanish buscar (from Old Spanish boscar), perhaps originally from bosco "wood" (see bush (n.)), with a hunting notion of "beating a wood" to flush game.

1. But I did busk in a few cities.

不過,我還是在一些城市的街頭進行了表演.

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2. I used to busk, but I was always being moved on by the police.

我以前常在街頭賣藝, 但警察總是命令我走開.

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